Orange Toast
The Orange Toast was the traditional toast which loyal Irish Protestants raised to the memory of William III (King Billy), champion of the Protestant cause in the Jacobite (or Williamite) War and victor at the Battle of the Boyne. There a various forms of the toast, each slightly different than the others:
Here's to the glorious, pious and immortal memory of the great and good King William III, Prince of Orange, who saved us from rogues and roguery, slaves and slavery, knaves and knavery, Popes and Popery, brass money and wooden shoes.
And whoever denies this toast may he be slammed, crammed and jammed into the muzzle of the great gun of Athlone, and the gun fired into the Pope's belly, and the Pope into the Devil's belly, and the Devil into Hell, and the door locked, and the key in an Orangeman's pocket, and may we never lack a brisk Protestant boy to kick the arse of a Papist, and here's a fart for the Bishop of Cork.
The "brass money" refers to the money made by James II using brass cannon. The "wooden shoes" refer to the French, who persecuted the Protestant Huguenots. The Protestant Bishop of Cork preached against the practice of toasting the dead, believing it to be akin to the Popish custom of saying Mass for the dead.
Another version of the Orange Toast is as follows:
To the glorious, pious and immortal memory of the great and good King William, who saved us from popery, slavery, priestcraft and knavery, brass money, and wooden shoes, and who allowed a debtor to walk on Sunday, and he who will not drink this toast shall be rammed, crammed and jammed down the Big Gun of Athlone, and shot up against the Rock of Gibraltar, and his bones made into sparables [boot nails] to make boots for decent Protestants, and a fig for the Bishop of Cork.
